December 16, 2015
Since completing our 3000 nautical mile voyage to SE Alaska
our first order of business was to have Spirit hauled out and annual
maintenance performed, including fresh bottom paint,
replacing the Amartech shaft seal, tuning the propeller and strengthening the
rudder shoe after water was found in the keel void. Spirit is now safely moored at Anacortes
Marina and winterized for possible cold weather.
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| New Amartech Shaft Seal |
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| Reinforced Rudder Shoe and retuned Prop |
We have also been preparing for another trip, this time with
someone else driving. In less than 48
hours we drive to Vancouver, BC where we will overnight at the Fairmont Hotel
at the airport. On Friday we board an
American Airlines flight to Santiago, Chile.
After an overnight stay we will transfer to Valparaiso, Chile and board
the Seabourn Quest for a 24-night voyage though the Chilean Fjords, Patagonia,
the Drake Passage, the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Island and finally
arriving in Buenos Aires with a stop in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Christmas will be in the Chilean Fjords and we will
celebrate the New Year somewhere on the Antarctic peninsula.
Hi Patrick and Miriam,
ReplyDeleteI'm very interested in using your photo of a shell midden in a booklet that the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife is making for waterfront homeowners. The booklet is about alternatives to bulkheads.
Please get in touch at Alison.Hart@dfw.wa.gov. I look forward to hearing from you.